Posts by Joe Mechlinski

The bears have stopped chasing us through the wilderness, yet we live in an environment that requires an ability to cope with a much higher level of stress. We’re taxing not only our physical muscles but also our emotional,...

A couple of years ago, my gut brain urged me to give back to the city of Baltimore. This was following the notorious incident when a Freddie Gray, had died in the hospital after being arrested by the police. The city wanted...

I channel my desire to make an impact by helping companies, organizations, and entrepreneurs integrate broader missions into their work culture. This desire comes from listening to my gut brain, which leads us toward working...

Using our head brains to innovate and our heart brains to inspire isn’t good enough for us to achieve different results if we aren’t also connected, behaving like a hive, with a collective consciousness. We can only do this...

It's essential to use your heart brain and, at work, to create a culture of continuous feedback. You want to acknowledge the humanity of your employees as a way of creating engagement. At SHIFT we enacted an exercise called...

We think with our hearts and guts as well as our heads, but the heart and gut brains complement the head brain in areas such as sorting information and strategizing. The brain in your heart and gut matter. This fact doesn’t...

One of the major reasons people leave their jobs is because they don’t feel as if they’re making progress and growing. What if your organization celebrated even the small victories of its workers? A software program known as...

Recently, I decided I wanted to address the issue of people feeling that their work goes unnoticed by connecting with our team in a uniquely different way. Also, since a majority of my work is done outside the office, I feared...

In the backs of our minds, we know we get only one go-around, and we don’t know when it will end. What if we could more often operate based on this reality? If we were continually aware of our fragile state, we’d be our best...